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合并星系团ZwCl 2341.1+0000中无线电遗迹的一部分没有受到冲击?

No Shock Across Part of a Radio Relic in the Merging Galaxy Cluster ZwCl 2341.1+0000?

G. A. Ogrean, M. Brueggen, R. J. van Weeren, A. Burgmeier, A. Simionescu

摘要:

星系团ZwCl 2341.1+0000是一个z=0.27的合并系统,拥有两个射电遗迹和一个中央的微弱的射电结构。这两个射电遗迹具有异常平坦的综合光谱指数,分别为-0.49 +/- 0.18和-0.76 +/- 0.17,这些值与弱合并冲击下热粒子的标准扩散冲击加速度理论不太一致。我们目前的成像结果,从XMM牛顿和钱德拉观测的集群,旨在检测和消除密度不连续的ICM。正如预期的那样,我们在每个射电遗迹附近探测到密度不连续。然而,如果这些不连续性是激发无线电发射的激波阵面,那么它们的马赫数是令人惊讶的低,两者都<=2。我们研究了密度不连续的孔径,发现当NW不连续跨越NW射电遗迹的整个长度时,SE不连续跨越的弧短于SE遗迹跨越的弧。这一惊人的结果与我们目前对射电遗迹起源的理解明显矛盾。需要更深的X射线数据来证实我们的结果,并确定密度不连续性的性质。

英文摘要:

The galaxy cluster ZwCl 2341.1+0000 is a merging system at z=0.27, which hosts two radio relics and a central, faint, filamentary radio structure. The two radio relics have unusually flat integrated spectral indices of -0.49 +/- 0.18 and -0.76 +/- 0.17, values that cannot be easily reconciled with the theory of standard diffusive shock acceleration of thermal particles at weak merger shocks. We present imaging results from XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the cluster, aimed to detect and characterise density discontinuities in the ICM. As expected, we detect a density discontinuity near each of the radio relics. However, if these discontinuities are the shock fronts that fuelled the radio emission, then their Mach numbers are surprisingly low, both <=2. We studied the aperture of the density discontinuities, and found that while the NW discontinuity spans the whole length of the NW radio relic, the arc spanned by the SE discontinuity is shorter than the arc spanned by the SE relic. This startling result is in apparent contradiction with our current understanding of the origin of radio relics. Deeper X-ray data are required to confirm our results and to determine the nature of the density discontinuities.

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